Patrick Moore’s Sunday 16 April opinion piece in the Washington Post is generating quite a buzz online. The Post has picked nuclear energy as its debate topic of the week with lots of responses. If you dig deep into the discussion, you will find that I put in a couple of cents worth of comments.
I am sure that some of you have some unique insights to contribute to the public debate. Go for it!
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Okay, I admit that the headline is a bit misleading, but I could not resist. I came across an article titled Nuclear Power To Heat Your Home? on the ABC-7 (San Francisco, CA) web site. The author listed for the article is Pete Wilson, a news anchorman who bears the burden of sharing the same…
During the past week, I have read at least four editorials written in praise of Ayn Rand’s Objectivist manifesto Atlas Shrugged. The occasion for the flurry of effort was the 50th anniversary of the book’s publication in October 1957. These editorials have pointed to the influential nature of the book, which has achieved steady sales…
As part of its Nuclear Option Special Section, MarketWatch included a video interview with Aude Lagorce asking Ben Ayliffe of Greenpeace for his opinion about whether or not nuclear energy is “green”. Not surprisingly, Ayliffe strongly disagreed with the characterization of nuclear energy as “green”; his organization has been professionally engaged in opposing nuclear energy…
I spent the majority of the past week at the American Nuclear Society winter meeting held at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington DC. I had every intention of adding new material regularly during the conference, but three issues slowed me down. First of all, I came down with a wicked cold that sapped my…
Yesterday, February 26, 2008, I had the opportunity to take a couple of hours off of my day job to attend an event sponsored by the Progressive Policy Institute titled PPI Debate: Is Atomic Energy A Cure for Climate Change?. PPI had invited four speakers, each of whom have significant credentials as Environmentalists. The slate…
Jon Block recently wrote a SFGate.com Forum commentary titled On U.S. Energy Policy: Nuclear power is not today’s solution for global warming. According to the article byline, Mr. Block serves as the nuclear energy and climate change project manager for The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). A position with that title would be useful in…